Kerbal Space Program: Enhanced Edition

 PlayStation 4
Metascore
64

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 7
  3. Negative: 2 out of 7
  1. PlayStation Universe
    Feb 20, 2018
    45
    Kerbal Space Program is a fascinating educational tool. There's a childlike joy to be had in experimenting with your space-faring efforts. You'll find it hard to appreciate that on PS4 though, as this version is a mess on multiple levels. A genuinely good game is spoiled by a terrible port.
  2. Push Square
    Jan 20, 2018
    40
    It's such a shame that Kerbal Space Program is so shoddily ported, because underneath its buggy, messy experience lies a fantastically detailed game with plenty for science nerds. The career mode offers replayability and near-endless depth, while the tutorials are hugely helpful in bringing new people into the complex clutches of physics, but its plethora of bugs and some huge design oversights make it very hard to recommend. The gameplay itself shoots for the stars, but its technical problems bring it crashing back down.

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User Score
5.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 32 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 32
  3. Negative: 13 out of 32
  1. Spidor
    Apr 29, 2020
    0
    The single most embarrassing port I have ever seen. Cumbersome and ugly UI makes it nearly unplayable on PS4.
  2. inopinatus
    Feb 11, 2019
    3
    A truly unique game crippled by an abysmal port. KSP:EE has game-breaking interface bugs, ugly graphics, and a bizarre control scheme thatA truly unique game crippled by an abysmal port. KSP:EE has game-breaking interface bugs, ugly graphics, and a bizarre control scheme that seems to have been slapped on as an afterthought. The physics engine is extraordinary and vehicle simulation is impressive, but thanks to the game-breaking control design I've had more fun using Microsoft Excel, and the bugs and omissions are unforgiveable. This port is so sloppily executed some controls can't actually be used, suggesting that no real playtesting took place.

    The number of QA complaints I could list is more than this input can hold, but it's everything from a camera that doesn't go all the way around (especially bad in a space game) to forcing the player to (slowly) delete saves (no overwrite option - and it corrupted my save to boot), terrible copywriting in missions, controls that require that none-existent mouse or keyboard, a button layout that perversely maps the same button to "dismiss text box" and then "take major destructive action".

    There's a general obsession with input modes that means you're fighting the interface more than you're playing the game. It seems that the developers basically ignored the years of interface design that went into porting similarly complicated games, and did the minimum necessary to make it run and get it past the reviewers.

    The game also slows down as you play it - one hour in and you'll be experiencing frequent seizures where the game simply stops accepting input for a second - and this is game-breaking during orbital manoeuvres, landing, and docking, and again indicates that no-one bothered significantly play testing this port.

    If you've seen this game with pretty graphics in Youtube videos then better understand that it has been modded to do so, and those mods are not included. KSP:EE makes no effort to render a realistic environment. You will also see many KSP instructors on Youtube relying on computational or engineering mods that are not available on the console, despite those mods being essential to game playability.

    The storyline mode is extremely rudimentary and serves mainly as a very partial introduction to some aspects of the simulation engine and a means to add the tiny challenge of a tech tree.

    I thought that publisher Take-Two Interactive were a AAA company but this feels like a half-baked indie tech demo with a UI designed by a sadist and no playtesting for the console. It's astounding that Sony even allowed it to be released.

    The physics engine and vehicle simulation is just amazing, but as a game it's crippled.

    If you can, get the PC version. If you must have this on PS4, get it when it's on at least 50% discount.    … Full Review »
  3. Joope
    Jan 25, 2018
    0
    At this moment game can be described as "hardly playable" aside the saving bug, the controls are horrible. Sometimes left is left sometimesAt this moment game can be described as "hardly playable" aside the saving bug, the controls are horrible. Sometimes left is left sometimes (and it is not connected at all with flight) left goes for right. PS4 doesn't support bluetooth mouse... Playstation Store denies refund for this undeveloped piece of annoyance! Don't buy it for PS4 because you will regret it!… Full Review »
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